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Aa·chen  audio  (äkn, än) KEY   also Aix-la-Cha·pelle   (kslä-sh-pl, ks-) KEY  

A city of western Germany near the Belgian and Dutch borders. Charlemagne may have been born here in 742; he later made the city his northern capital. Population: 249,000.



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